Terlingua Sunset chords by Ron Wayne Atwood

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Never  (E minor) 
was a man like him,
B 
so quick  (B major) as to steal the night
C 
 (C major) He'd reach out and grab it,
Em 
and tuck it  (E minor) in  out of sight
His face was like a war map,
B 
all  (B major) lined in leather tan
C 
 (C major) Now time itself had come
Em 
to betray  (E minor) the man
For years he was an outlaw
B 
of histor (B major) ic West Texas fame
C 
To  (C major) us he was a stranger,
Em 
nobody knew  (E minor) his name
His trademark was a dollar thrown
B 
from the pock (B major) et of his shirt
C 
They  (C major) say he left one hundred men
Em 
face down  (E minor) in the dirt
Am 
 (A minor) Terlingua sunset
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unlike shad (F major) ows of his eyes
Am 
More  (A minor) truth than witness,
E 
the  (E major) outlaw of bloody lies
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 (F major) Curling with sunset
Am 
shades of sweat  (A minor) and alcohol
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 (B flat major) Curling with texts
B 
Em 
 (B major) where he'd stand  (E minor) and fall
Twenty years had cured a boy
E 
B 
into  (E major) a   (B major) man of the Texas law
C 
 (C major) Privates fresh from his straightened brow
Em 
to  (E minor) his tightened jaw
B 
Em 
As  (B major) a  (E minor) child he'd seen his father
B 
gunned  (B major) down on a dusty street
C 
He was  (C major) here to return the dollar
Em 
the stranger threw  (E minor) at his feet
Now with hands as quick as lightning
B 
like the  (B major) strike of a rattlesnake
C 
With  (C major) sunburned eyes
Em 
a stranger realized his fatal  (E minor) mistake
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Em 
Part of him was  (E major) dy ing,  (E minor) 
B 
though a part  (B major) was already dead
C 
Nev (C major) er thought he'd die
Em 
from the shot of a fast  (E minor) handed kill
Now the night was filled
with cable talk
B 
throughout  (B major) the desert land
C 
The  (C major) telegraph spoke
Em 
how the stranger broke to an hon (E minor) est hand
A twenty -year -old peso
B 
lay on his  (B major) chest
where the blood had run
C 
An (C major) d that's the price
when you live your life
Em 
through the nose  (E minor) of a gun
Am 
 (A minor) Berlin was sunset
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unlike shad (F major) ows of his eyes
Am 
Poor  (A minor) truth didn't witness
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the  (E major) outlaw's bloody life
Em 
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Ter (E minor) lingua's  (F major) sunset
Am 
takes the sweat  (A minor) and alcohol
Bb 
B 
Terlingua  (B flat major) texts  (B major) where he'd
Em 
B 
C 
Em 
stand  (E minor) and fall  (B major)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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C 
Em 
You  (B major)  (C major)  (E minor) 
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C 
 (B major)  (C major) You
Em 
 (E minor) 